Quick Start Guide

Get up and running with LemWatch in under 5 minutes.

Quick Start Guide

Welcome to LemWatch — your all-in-one website monitoring platform. Here's how to start in under 5 minutes.

1. Create Your Account

Sign up free at lemwatch.com. No credit card needed. You get 10 sites on the Free plan.

2. Add Your First Site

Click "Add Site" from the dashboard. Enter your URL (e.g., https://example.com). LemWatch auto-detects your site's CMS, robots.txt, sitemaps, and hosting provider.

3. Wait for Your First Check

Within 2 minutes, LemWatch runs 45+ checks across four categories:

4. Set Up Alerts

Go to Settings → Notifications. Email alerts are on by default. Add any of the 11 supported channels (Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, Google Chat, Mattermost, Rocket.Chat, ntfy, PagerDuty, generic webhook, or browser push) — see the channels overview.

5. Take the Guided Tour

When you first log in, LemWatch offers an interactive guided tour that walks you through the dashboard, site details, alerts, and reports. You can also restart it anytime from your profile menu.

6. Explore the Dashboard

Each site shows a health score (0–100). Click any site for detailed metrics, trend charts, and actionable fix recommendations ranked by priority.

What Makes LemWatch Different

Unlike tools that only check uptime, LemWatch monitors everything — uptime, performance, security headers, SSL, SEO health, broken links, DNS records, content freshness, image optimisation, font loading, cookie compliance, certificate transparency, exposed services, and more. All from one dashboard.

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